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Netflix Is Just the World’s Worst Video Store

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By Yasmin Nair 
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I just spent part  of a recent evening trying to find something new or interesting to watch on Netflix and failing as I clicked through endless categories. This is a short set of musings, drawing upon my 2018 essay “Your Trauma Is Your Passport: Hannah Gadsby, Nanette, and Global Citizenship,” where I discussed the rise of the streamer in one of its sections. I have a Netflix subscription. I’m not quite sure what that means anymore.
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Write for Strangers

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By Yasmin Nair 
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Over the last few years, I’ve encountered a number of books in all genres, fiction and non-fiction, that seem quite disengaged from their presumed readership. This appears to have coincided with an uptick in online “literary communities” where writers only talk to and write for each other. There have been several conversations lately, on social media and in actual publications, about the State of Publishing, accompanied by a lot of hand-wringing about How Bad Things Are.
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On Writers and Parasociality

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By Yasmin Nair 
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Many thanks to M. for the input. We can thank John Mulaney for parasociality. Or, rather, for causing a relatively unknown psychiatric term to suddenly burst forth into everyday public discourse. In 2021, the comic announced that he had finished a stint in rehab, was divorcing his wife, was now in a relationship with the actor Olivia Munn, and that they were having a child.
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